Botanical Department 
of the 
University of Edinburgh. 
DURING nearly two centuries the offices of Regius Keeper of 
the Royal Botanic Garden and Professor of Botany in the 
University of Edinburgh have been held by.the same person, and 
it has become the custom that the students of the University 
come to the Garden for instruction in Botany. The whole work 
of the Botanical Department of the University is carried out in 
the Garden by the University Staff, which at this date is 
constituted as follows :— 
Provessor Or Botany , °..., yo. Isaac Bayley Balfour; 
K. BES MAS MD FS 
Assistant and Lecturer on Botany, James Robert Matthews, 
MAL Pika. 3, 
Assistant and Lecturer on Forest . James Lindsay Salmond 
Botany Smith, M.A., B.Sc. 
Assistant and Lecturer on Mycology Malcolm Wilson, D.Sc., 
F-1L.5., Fem Be 
Assistant and Lecturer on Plant James Templeton, B.Sc. 
Physiology 
Assistant and Tutor in Botany ; Mary Bartholomew, 
B.Sc. 
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